Xeon Owners Club

[Fouquin]

That's the downside of E5600-series, it only supports DDR3-1066 natively. You need to find an X5650 or something similar, with DDR3-1333 support. Then you can safely OC your RAM to its fullest potential, while having an option of high and moderate overclock on your CPU.

I was pushing 1600+ on the E5640s, they should be able to handle that fine. 1866 might be a bit trickier but I know it can be done as well.

 

[Recon-UK]

That's the downside of E5600-series, it only supports DDR3-1066 natively. You need to find an X5650 or something similar, with DDR3-1333 support. Then you can safely OC your RAM to its fullest potential, while having an option of high and moderate overclock on your CPU.

Well i'm still waiting to see what AMD has with ZEN which is 2017-18 so.... this CPU will definitely last me till then.
I'm unsure if the max speed rating by intel is really anything to go by TBH, Westmere-EP is the same silicon as the 6 core variant, plus all CPU's handle things different to another.

This RAM kit on my AM3 platform managed 1700mhz.

 

[silentbogo]

I was pushing 1600+ on the E5640s, they should be able to handle that fine. 1866 might be a bit trickier but I know it can be done as well.

It is possible and very much doable, but at great cost. you've got to OC the CPU past 4GHz to see 1600MHz effective.
With 1333 native support you only need a slight 20% overclock to get there.

 

[Fouquin]

It is possible and very much doable, but at great cost.

Depends on the chip and mobo you get.

http://valid.x86.fr/8tycr0

Very little cost, nearly 1800MHz. You are right that it would almost always require 4GHz+ to see that number.

 

[Recon-UK]

It is possible and very much doable, but at great cost. you've got to OC the CPU past 4GHz to see 1600MHz effective.
With 1333 native support you only need a slight 20% overclock to get there.

Well i will be doing some testing

I can get to 4.5ghz before i hit my RAM kit limit, which actually lands at 1707 in the bios.

EDIT, i might start using offsets for my overclocks until i get the H100, or i will be cooking the nuts of my poor XEON.

EDIT that went completely wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I ended up driving 1.6 volts through my CPU.... LOL

It's all good now though according to my bios, +0465 is 1.6v
So put voltage on AUTO in offset mode, that gave me a base reading of 1.215v i then gave it an offset of +1.000 now i max at 1.315v.

 

[FireFox]

I guess i have to buy a single 1366 Socket Motherboard to see how far could be push the X5677, i have overclocked a lot i7 but not a Xeon because all what i use are dual socket Motherboard

 

[silentbogo]

I guess i have to buy a single 1366 Socket Motherboard to see how far could be push the X5677, i have overclocked a lot i7 but not a Xeon because all what i use are dual socket Motherboard

Or ask @Fouquin to sell his SR2

 

[FireFox]

Or ask @Fouquin to sell his SR2

He is in America i am in Europe

 

[Recon-UK]

4.46ghz suicide run.

1700mhz RAM.

http://valid.x86.fr/j7u5am

 

[FireFox]

4.46ghz suicide run.

1700mhz RAM.

http://valid.x86.fr/j7u5am

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[Recon-UK]

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Well with that run it seemed rock solid, i even posted on that bios setting here... usually when RAM is not stable or CPU needs volts things are sluggish or i get errors, none at all at those settings... you can see even with light load though my noctua cooler has had enough, but i was happy with the bench result.

Can't wait to get her under water, as i said before i'm aiming for 4.7ghz.

 

[glitchmaster0001]

Hello guys, im new to this forum and i just came over from overclock.net and linustechtips. 90% of my used PC builds used Xeons as their workhorse CPU, so im proud to show my most powerful xeon build ive ever done. meet the Dual Xeon X5650 Build aka The Old Skool KILLBOX. this build came at around $350 USD to build since i got a good ass deal on the motherboard and most of the parts lol goodwill FTW! and also had some parts already as well. what makes this PC awesome is for $350 it matches the power of a $1000 i7 5960X CPU alone. but the entire build costed only $350.

System Specifications:
CPU: Intel Xeon X5650 Hexa Core Processor (2 processors) @2.67GHz 12 cores 24 threads
Motherboard: Supermicro X8 DTL IF LGA 1366 Dual Socket Motherboard
RAM: 24GB Hynix DDR3 1333MHz ECC Registered Memory
GPU: ASUS GTX 760 2GB GDDR5
Storage: 1x Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7.2k RPM HDD, 1x WD VelociRaptor 160GB 10k RPM HDD, 1x Seagate Barracuda 250GB 7.2k RPM HDD
Cooling: 1x Corsair H70 Core, 1x Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
Case: NZXT Tempest EVO
PSU: Antec TP 650W PSU
OS: Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit

 

[Fouquin]

for $350 it matches the power of a $1000 i7 5960X CPU alone.

Great value, but don't be too disillusioned into thinking that this build will be smacking around a 5960X. Sure you've got more cores and threads, but each thread on the 5960X is near 40% stronger and it has newer instructions to boot. For many things multi-threaded the two systems shouldn't be too far apart assuming the threads are all used as efficiently as possible.

Still, you paid a bit over a third for twice that in performance. Pretty nice.

 

[Recon-UK]

Welcome mate, glad you took my advice, LTT is a community of brats mostly, i just have fun on there

 

[silkstone]

I have a xeon E3110 which is soon to be replaced with an E5450. Does that count to enter the club?

 

[Recon-UK]

I have a xeon E3110 which is soon to be replaced with an E5450. Does that count to enter the club?

According to the OP... it counts

 

[glitchmaster0001]

Great value, but don't be too disillusioned into thinking that this build will be smacking around a 5960X. Sure you've got more cores and threads, but each thread on the 5960X is near 40% stronger and it has newer instructions to boot. For many things multi-threaded the two systems shouldn't be too far apart assuming the threads are all used as efficiently as possible.

Still, you paid a bit over a third for twice that in performance. Pretty nice.

i know an entire complete PC for $350 vs $1000 for just a CPU alone. it doesn't get any cheaper than this ladies and gentleman... for the applications i used and tested it with, it was able to use all 12 cores and 24 threads thus unleashing the full power of the dual xeons. i agree with you in most applications like gaming and what not it wont be as fast as a 5960x since it cant unleash its full power but when it comes to rendering or heavily multi threaded apps this PC will unleash its full horsepower.

 

[glitchmaster0001]

Welcome mate, glad you took my advice, LTT is a community of brats mostly, i just have fun on there

i know. i personally like overclock.net, toms hardware, and i want to see how this forum shapes up. LTT is full of rich spoiled kids who don't know squat about hardware at all. all they know is the latest and greatest. not how you can get extreme value for money out of used server hardware or used parts. hell like i said earlier people there think a P45 mobo with a X5460 at 4.0GHz is useless and worthless. they sadly are ignorant to the fact that a 10 year old board with the right CPU will run very well even if its 10 years old.

 

[silkstone]

i know. i personally like overclock.net, toms hardware, and i want to see how this forum shapes up. LTT is full of rich spoiled kids who don't know squat about hardware at all. all they know is the latest and greatest. not how you can get extreme value for money out of used server hardware or used parts. hell like i said earlier people there think a P45 mobo with a X5460 at 4.0GHz is useless and worthless. they sadly are ignorant to the fact that a 10 year old board with the right CPU will run very well even if its 10 years old.

It's actually overclock.net that are helping me out with my E3110 to E5450 upgrade. I only lyrics just joined, but the people in that thread seem pretty helpful.

Though, TPU will always be my 'home'

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

4.46ghz suicide run.

1700mhz RAM.

http://valid.x86.fr/j7u5am

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4.48ghz

I dont have this particular cpu anymore but yesterday i sold an E 5620 rig to free up funds for more Xeons.

Im thinking X5677 @5.0 ghz as a target to aim for.....

 

[Recon-UK]

4.48ghz

I dont have this particular cpu anymore but yesterday i sold an E 5620 rig to free up funds for more Xeons.

Im thinking X5677 @5.0 ghz as a target to aim for.....

H100 gonna crush dem dreams caps, at least i hope... nice clocks matey



On another note i finally got banned after saying LTT is a sham and pointed out that the mod only gave me 1 point for calling everyone's mother some awkward things.


It was just for the banter as i can't stand that place, i'm not a troll and here i am my true knowledgable self like i should be, this place is more my style, level headed people with brains

But yeah it...

 

[silkstone]

4.48ghz

I dont have this particular cpu anymore but yesterday i sold an E 5620 rig to free up funds for more Xeons.

Im thinking X5677 @5.0 ghz as a target to aim for.....

Really nice! Is that an E0 stepping?

I'm disputing whether to get a C0 E5450 or a E0 5440. I'm getting a cheapo HSF, so cooling is going to be the biggest issue for me.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

H100 gonna crush dem dreams caps, at least i hope... nice clocks matey

iirc i got that with MSI pro-E and Corsair H 50.

E 5620 less than a tenner
E 5640 about £ 20.00

both excellent cpus


I never hit a thermal limit on either CPU ..................dont expect miracles from the H 100.

i genuinely hope you can whizz yours past mine......

 

[Recon-UK]

iirc i got that with MSI pro-E and Corsair H 50.

E 5620 less than a tenner
E 5640 about £ 20.00

both excellent cpus


I never hit a thermal limit on either CPU ..................dont expect miracles from the H 100.

i genuinely hope you can whizz yours past mine......

Yeah i know i'm not too far away from hitting BCLK limit's but right now i am thermally limited.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

H 100 and Wendys knicker elastic

it kept my CPU cool but my Wifes pants didnt fall down as i had hoped.